Ever have a meal where your kids end up looking like this?
When I don’t think ahead that’s the mess I end up having to clean up. When I know I have a messy meal and plan ahead the kids where what I call “spaghetti shirts”. Quite simply they are old cast off T-shirts that are a couple of sizes too big. The kids put them right on over whatever they are wearing and it protects their clothes from messes.
After dinner, the shirts come right off (pulled over their heads from the bottom up so that they’re turned inside out in the process) and into the laundry basket. Then we only have to spend time cleaning faces and hands rather than treating stains on clothes. My favorite result of the shirts? We all have a stress free, no frustration, yet messy meal.
Really good idea, Cricket! Thanks!
haha I just let mine eat topless. That can’t last forever, but it works for now!